Word: loyalists
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...course the Loyalist cause attracted the millions of poor peasants and workers who, with the Popular Front government, for the first time felt themselves an integral part of the Spanish nation. It is only after watching documentary sequences from a movie such as To Die in Madrid that we can truly understand the tragedy of the destruction of the Spanish Republic. We see avid militiamen raising clenched fists out the windows of railroad cars headed for the front. We then see them scurrying like scared rabbits through the din and smoke of the battlefield, advancing in spite of their terror...
...selfsame man who for 35 years has ruled the Spanish people with an oppressive iron hand. Decades after the fall of Mussolini and the demise of Hitler, Franco maintains a reign of terror in Madrid and Barcelona, throughout Aragon and Castile, over the sons and daughters of the Loyalist soldiers who lay buried in unmarked graves in the Spanish countryside...
...dramatic guilty plea aroused in many: "Any man who would walk over his grandmother for Nixon would go to prison for him too." Colson himself was emphatic in his unswerving allegiance to Nixon, once saying, "When they lower me six feet under, I will go away a Nixon loyalist...
...President Nixon refuses to resign and digs in to fight impeachment, the sizable minority of Americans who want him to continue in office is solidifying into a loyalist bastion that is supporting him with growing determination. According to the latest poll conducted for TIME by Daniel Yankelovich, Inc., Americans are becoming increasingly polarized, with 53% wanting Nixon out of office and 38% wanting him to stay...
...ranks of even last-ditch Southern supporters were far from solid. Republican Senator John Tower of Texas, a Nixon loyalist, was described by an aide as being in a "state of anguish." While still maintaining that there was insufficient evidence to impeach, the aide admitted: "This thing is closing in on the President pretty hard right now." Said a Southern Senator: "You have to realize that these Southern members of Congress are not going to let their conservative leanings sway them if there is a clear moral issue involved. They are talking about the gutter language indicated in the transcript...